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E. Armand, “Because I Consider You To Be Mine” (1913)

May 8, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Parce que je te considère comme mien. Parce que je te considère comme mien, je m’intéresse à toi. Parce que je sais que je puis compter sur toi dans les heures difficiles, ou sur tes […]

Anarchism: Plain and neo-Proudhonian

April 22, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related Links: Our Lost Continent and the Journey Back [main page] “Theories of Anarchist Development” (December 30, 2017) Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) “Toward a General Theory of Archy” (October 3, 2015) “Escheat and Anarchy” (October […]

Anarchist History: Lessons from the Outbound Journey

April 21, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related Links: Our Lost Continent and the Journey Back [main page] GREAT DIVIDES: Lessons of the Outbound Journey It’s been almost exactly five years since I first proposed “our lost continent” as a metaphor for […]

Notes on Liberty and neo-Proudhonian Anarchism

April 21, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

If we step entirely away from legal/governmental conceptions of liberty, where it is a question of permissions and prohibitions, then one of the options is to address liberty in terms similar to those used by Proudhon. He spoke about quantities of liberty within beings and social collectivities, determined by the complexity and intensity of their internal relations.

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In Search of the Great Divide

March 19, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve decided to devote a section of the project, In Search of the Great Divide, to the pre-1840 period—and specifically to the question of how and when to start a general history of anarchism, addressing some of the alternatives in the beginning and taking the opportunity to look at how various other general histories have tackled the problem.

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Authority, Liberty and the Federative Principle

February 19, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: Initial Thoughts Proudhon’s Du principe fédératif et de la nécessité de reconstituer le parti de la révolution occupies an interesting place among his works. It has been, prior to my translation of Théorie […]

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers on an Anti-Slavery Tour Of the White Hills (1841)

February 16, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

An 1841 Anti-Slavery Tour Of the White Hills Nathaniel Peabody Rogers CE-4706 A CORVUS EDITION ANTI-SLAVERY JAUNT TO THE MOUNTAINS [from the Herald of Freedom of Sept. 10,1841.] We meant, from the several stages […]

Proudhon’s Barbaric Yawp (1840)

February 5, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Every story has to start somewhere. And when the story is that of anarchist history, it seems hard to find a more likely place to begin than Proudhon’s 1840 declaration—je suis anarchiste—which we generally treat as the first instance of at least one kind of anarchist position-taking.

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Positive Anarchy, Profusion, Uncertainty and the Uses of History

January 30, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Our Lost Continent and the Journey Back Project Page: Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea, 1837–1936 RELATED: “Our Lost Continent” (April 4, 2015) “The ‘Benthamite’ anarchism and the origins […]

Archy vs. Anarchy

January 28, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

These short contrasting entries constitute an attempt to sketch out some basic principles of existing archic society and some anarchic alternatives. Those alternatives are drawn largely from what we have been calling the “neo-Proudhonian” project. […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

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